.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 246 118
Rank change year-on-year -73 -128 +26
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 379 506 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.24% 2.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.48% 5.53% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 347 392 1,753
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,683 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,912 9,143 16,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.85% 22.43% 21.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,279 6,089 13,574
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -54 108 £55,000 +8.08% 46
London -33 99 £80,000 +6.67% 65
North West -18 65 £55,000 - 24
South East -41 56 £60,000 +14.29% 62
Midlands -19 54 £65,000 +23.81% 24
East Midlands -1 42 £65,000 +26.83% 13
South West -4 38 £55,000 -25.42% 24
Yorkshire -49 24 £40,000 -20.00% 14
North East -9 19 £55,000 +22.22% 10
East of England -13 18 £83,750 +67.50% 24
West Midlands -26 12 £55,000 -2.22% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.85%) IIS
2 2 (0.53%) CMS
2 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Kentico
3 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
2 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 219 (57.78%) Azure
2 88 (23.22%) AWS
3 57 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (12.40%) Serverless
5 39 (10.29%) SaaS
6 28 (7.39%) GitHub
7 21 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.54%) Power Platform
8 19 (5.01%) Azure Functions
9 18 (4.75%) Azure AKS
10 17 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.69%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.43%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.32%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) AMQP
2 1 (0.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.26%) Modbus
2 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (40.11%) SQL Server
2 33 (8.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (8.44%) NoSQL
4 31 (8.18%) MongoDB
5 24 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.75%) Power BI
7 14 (3.69%) MySQL
7 14 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.43%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.06%) Redis
11 3 (0.79%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (13.46%) Git
2 9 (2.37%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.79%) JIRA
5 3 (0.79%) Vite
5 3 (0.79%) webpack
6 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.53%) MSTest
6 2 (0.53%) NUnit
7 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.26%) GitLab
7 1 (0.26%) Selenium
7 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (12.66%) Finance
2 40 (10.55%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.22%) Law
4 13 (3.43%) Games
4 13 (3.43%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.37%) Front Office
7 8 (2.11%) Banking
8 7 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.06%) Legal
9 4 (1.06%) Retail
10 3 (0.79%) Advertising
10 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.79%) Marketing
10 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.53%) Automotive
11 2 (0.53%) Local Government
11 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Back Office
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 263 (69.39%) Developer
2 128 (33.77%) .NET Developer
3 105 (27.70%) Senior
4 88 (23.22%) Software Developer
5 71 (18.73%) C# Developer
6 63 (16.62%) Senior Developer
7 50 (13.19%) Software Engineer
8 49 (12.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 46 (12.14%) Lead
10 39 (10.29%) C# .NET Developer
11 28 (7.39%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (6.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (6.60%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 25 (6.60%) Senior Software Developer
14 24 (6.33%) Lead Developer
15 21 (5.54%) React Developer
15 21 (5.54%) Senior .NET Developer
16 20 (5.28%) .NET Software Developer
16 20 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (5.28%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (100.00%) .NET
2 124 (32.72%) ASP.NET
3 99 (26.12%) React
4 88 (23.22%) .NET Framework
5 57 (15.04%) AngularJS
6 55 (14.51%) RESTful
7 52 (13.72%) Entity Framework
8 50 (13.19%) HTML
9 49 (12.93%) Blazor
10 47 (12.40%) CSS
11 39 (10.29%) ASP.NET Core
12 36 (9.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 32 (8.44%) ASP.NET Web API
13 32 (8.44%) Vue
14 31 (8.18%) REST
15 27 (7.12%) Node.js
16 19 (5.01%) HTML5
17 14 (3.69%) Dapper ORM
18 13 (3.43%) AWS CDK
19 12 (3.17%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (3.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 12 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.64%) AI Agents
5 10 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.11%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.85%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.58%) 3D Graphics
9 5 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.06%) Digital TV
10 4 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.53%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.53%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.64%) VMS
2 5 (1.32%) Windows
3 4 (1.06%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (35.09%) Agile
2 129 (34.04%) Full-Stack Development
3 108 (28.50%) Software Engineering
4 107 (28.23%) CI/CD
5 90 (23.75%) DevOps
5 90 (23.75%) Microservices
6 72 (19.00%) MVC
7 61 (16.09%) Containerisation
8 54 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (12.14%) SDLC
10 42 (11.08%) Clean Code
11 37 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (8.71%) OO
13 31 (8.18%) Collaborative Culture
14 30 (7.92%) Mentoring
14 30 (7.92%) Scrum
15 28 (7.39%) Analytics
16 27 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 25 (6.60%) AI
17 25 (6.60%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 327 (86.28%) C#
2 151 (39.84%) SQL
3 112 (29.55%) JavaScript
4 49 (12.93%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.80%) Python
6 18 (4.75%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (2.37%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.11%) Rust
10 5 (1.32%) Bash
11 4 (1.06%) Bicep
12 3 (0.79%) Erlang
12 3 (0.79%) Java
12 3 (0.79%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.26%) C++
13 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (7.92%) Degree
2 14 (3.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.90%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.90%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.37%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.96%) QA
2 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.79%) WCAG
3 2 (0.53%) SLA
4 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.26%) GDPR
4 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.26%) ITGC
System Software
1 83 (21.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 101 (26.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.32%) Google
3 4 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (0.79%) Facebook
4 3 (0.79%) YouTube
5 2 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.53%) Databricks
5 2 (0.53%) Foundry
5 2 (0.53%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe
6 1 (0.26%) IBM
6 1 (0.26%) Okta
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle
6 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.26%) WooCommerce